[fedora-arm] arm software floating point support going forward

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Tue Jan 29 04:26:19 UTC 2013


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El Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:22:23 -0600
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> escribió:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wanted to kick off a discussion, I think that with the work that
> Seneca is doing for armv6hl to support the Raspberry Pi most of the
> need for building sfp has gone away. I would like us to drop support
> for sfp in F19 that means that anyone running a kirkwood based system
> would get supported software updates for approximately 13 months from
> now. with cubie boards and other devices coming around that are cheap
> and more powerful and similar options I think there is little benefit
> to continuing to support sfp.
> 
> Ive put in a request to get numbers of people using the arm and armhfp
> portions of mirrormanager to get some idea of the number of users out
> there, though i suspect most arm are raspberry pi and people building
> in mock.

since there has been no major objection i will disable building
armv5tel rpms in rawhide before the mass rebuild.

Dennis
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